MOSCOW, January 7. /TASS/. The Ukrainian armed forces lost over 300 servicemen, 26 vehicles and an ammunition depot on the Donetsk direction in 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

"Forces of battlegroup South, in cooperation with artillery, tactical and army aviation, inflicted damage on personnel and vehicles of the 3rd Assault, 10th Mountain Assault, 22nd, 24th, 28th, 42nd, 67th and 93rd Mechanized brigades, as well as 112nd territorial defense brigades near settlements of Bogdanovka, Artyomovskoye, Krasnoye, Klescheyevka, Andreyevka and Kurdyumovka, DPR," the Ministry said.

The Ministry added that the Ukrainian forces lost over 300 servicemen as killed or injured, as well as 4 armored combat vehicles and 20 automobile vehicles. The Russian Armed forces also hit a French-made Caesar self-propelled artillery, a US-made M119 howitzer and a Ukrainian armed forces ammunition depot.